| Date and time | 22 October (Friday), 2021 , 15:00-17:00（Japan time） |
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| Venue | Online (details to be announced herein) |
| Language | English |
| Organizers | Masa Higo, Ph.D. (Professor, Kyushu University, Q-AOS) |
| Theme | Aging Asia: Current and Future Challenges of Japan, China, Thailand and Singapore |
| Speakers | Masa Higo, Ph.D. (Professor, Kyushu University, Q-AOS) |
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Overview
In the midst of population aging across the world today, Asia deserves special attention as the heart of concern, particularly in the coming decade. Relative to Europe and North America, main preceding regions of this demographic shift, Asia at large will likely contend with greater challenges and face more daunting prospects. Many countries in this region of the world – those in East and Southeast Asia in particular – are, on the one hand, aging at a much faster speed; on the other hand, simultaneously, these countries are still facing the need to continue developing or to rapidly adjust their social and economic infrastructures. Furthermore, Asia is large and diverse; the impact of population aging significantly differs by country, a critical detail to which research has paid lesser attention to date. This session focuses on challenges that rapid population aging posits today in four selected countries in Asia including Japan, China, Thailand, and Singapore, and it discusses, mainly from social scientific perspectives, key challenges within each of the national contexts. The goal of this session is to contribute to exploring, based on the cases of these four countries, the prospects for aging Asia as a whole in the coming decades.
Registration & Participation Method
Contact
Masa Higo, Ph.D. (Kyushu University, Q-AOS)
[E-mail] higo.masateru.644★m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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